Lover I Don't Have to Love

About Lover I Don't Have to Love

"Lover I Don't Have to Love" is a song by Bright Eyes released as a single in 2002 and released on the album Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground. The music video is karaoke with sing-along lyrics and different ambiences in the background. It was covered by Bettie Serveert on their 2004 album Attagirl, and this cover was played extensively during the episode "The Undertow" of The O. C. The line "I asked your name, you asked the time" is a reference to the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. Single cover photograph by Casey Scott. more »

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I picked you out
Of a crowd and talked to you
Said I liked your shoes
You said: "Thanks can I follow you?"
So it's up the stairs
And out of view--no prying eyes
I poured some wine
I asked your name, you asked the time

Now it's two o'clock
The club is closed, we're up the block
Your hands on me
I'm pressing hard against your jeans
Your tongue in my mouth
Trying to keep the words from coming out
You didn't care to know
Who else may have been you before

I want a lover I don't have to love
I want a girl who's too sad to give a f*ck
Where's the kid with the chemicals?
I thought he said to meet me here but I'm not sure
I got the money if you got the time
You said it feels good--I said I'll give it a try

Then my mind went dark
We both forgot where your car was parked
Let's just take the train
I'll meet up with the band in the morning

Bad actors with bad habits
Some sad singers
They just play tragic
And the phone's ringing
And the van's leaving
Let's just keep touching
Let's just keep keep singing

I want a lover I don't have to love
I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk
Where's the kid with the chemicals?
I got a hunger and I can't seem to get full
I need some meaning I can memorize
The kind I have always seems to slip my mind

But you, but you
You write such pretty words
But life's no story book
Love's an excuse to get hurt
And to hurt
"Do you like to hurt?"
"I do! I do!"
"Then hurt me."

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Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes is an American indie rock band founded by singer-songwriter and guitarist Conor Oberst. It consists of Oberst, multi-instrumentalist and producer Mike Mogis, trumpet and piano player Nate Walcott, and a rotating lineup of collaborators drawn primarily from Omaha's indie music scene. more »

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